An Inexpensive Robot Platform for Teleoperation and Experimentation

Authors

Daniel A. Lazewatsky, Washington University in St LouisFollow
William D. Smart, Washington University in St Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

Publication Date

2010

Filename

WUCSE-2010-71.pdf

Technical Report Number

WUCSE-2010-71

Abstract

Most commercially-available robots are either aimed at the research community, or are designed with a single purpose in mind. The extensive hobbyist community has tended to focus on the hardware and the low-level software aspects. We claim that there is a need for a low-cost, general-purpose robot, accessible to the hobbyist community, with sufficient computation and sensing to run ``research-grade'' software. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of such a robot. We explicitly outline our design goals, and show how a capable robot can be assembled from off-the-shelf parts, for a modest cost, by a single person with only a few tools. We also show how the robot can be used as a low-cost telepresence platform, giving the system a concrete purpose beyond being a low-cost development platform.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7R20ZKZ

Recommended Citation

Lazewatsky, Daniel A. and Smart, William D., "An Inexpensive Robot Platform for Teleoperation and Experimentation" Report Number: WUCSE-2010-71 (2010). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/53